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- Learn note-taking dos and don’ts of note-taking to outlearn your competition.
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=== Timestamps ===
00:00 Intro
00:29 3 Step Learning Process
01:30 Impact of Your Note-Taking Process
03:12 Why and How to Top Learners Write Messy Notes
03:30 Live demonstration of Top 1% Note-Taking
06:42 Benefits of Top 1% Messy Notes
08:06 Upgrading Messing Notes
10:15 Problem with Pretty Notes
11:31 Illusion of Learning = Passive Learning
12:36 Start Messy, then Clean Up Your Notes
=== About Dr Justin Sung ===
Justin is a former medical doctor, full-time learning coach, and research author. Over the past decade, he has worked with over 10,000 learners from 120+ countries. He is the Co-Founder and Head of Learning at iCanStudy, an international training organisation for self-regulated higher-order learning.
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People did this with bullet journals. The sub reddit just ended up with people with "pretty" journals instead of actually use the bullet journal to stop procrastinating. It was ironic and idiotic.
I agree with this. Although to be fair it might be a therapeutic process to somewhat mindlessly draw or colour over things aside from making it just look “pretty”
indeed. i was an insta study blogger and those pretty journals are actually ugly. ugly in a way that does literally nothing.
I'm glad that I never fell onto the bullet journal and aesthetic note taking trends. I'm a graphic designer by day (+ years of experience as an artist/illustrator) and student by night yet I personally don't see the benefits of all that if you're just... taking notes.
The only benefit I could think of-as someone else already pointed out-is if you're looking for something therapeutic to do AND you have a lot of time to do that, which is something not a lot of students have. Sometimes you should prioritize efficiency over aesthetic, but that's just my opinion and what works for me
So I guess you can say they became the very thing they swore to destroy huh...
Same thing happen with Notion, beautiful template sale a ton but core concept is missing
I started doing higher-order learning after your videos just as an experiment. It was really hard to let go of detailed notes as I was afraid that I will forget everything. But I eventually really tried to use a couple of words and mostly doodles on a mindmap and really think about connections/relationships & patterns. At first, it took me quite a lot of time but as I did more of that, my brain started getting used to this type of thinking. Long story short, I literally didn't even try that hard and definitely didn't spend lots of hours studying, and got 95/100 on my first calc midterm. So thank you, Justin, you opened a whole new world for me!
That's fantastic! Thanks for sharing this!
is clac = calculus? if so, how did you do a mindmap for math? :) I would love if you could share some example
@Mindychen8 hey, I didn't have to take calc but I used it for physics. You do the same for math. Math is just concepts that you put numbers to. If you understand the concept of whatever you are learning you know what is given in a word problem is important. I believe Math tries to force you to understand this by adding things to a problem that you don't need just so you really understand what is being asked. Concept first then plug in numbers
@@Mindychen8 basically what @aztecmeza9234 said
how did you applied it to calc?
Pretty notes overwhelm me more, because I have a messy way of taking notes which I know works and when I'm trying to take the notes I keep thinking about how to make them pretty. The extra thought of trying to make it look nice is so much more overwhelming than the process of learning to me. The moment you accept that no one will look at your notes anyways is so freeing and they do what they need to do for you.
couldnt agree more
00:00:00
Obsession with pretty notes in studying influencers.
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Top learners often have messy notes for better learning.
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Importance of actively thinking while taking notes.
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Writing notes aids in organizing thoughts for better retention.
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Skipping the thinking process hinders actual learning.
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Creating notes before understanding content is counterproductive.
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Effective learning involves understanding, not just creating notes.
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Messy notes reflect active thinking and deeper understanding.
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Linear notes limit the ability to see connections and relationships.
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Starting messy and organizing leads to effective learning.
This man deserves an award for creating the best and most valuable content on CZcams.
I think the most important thing for me is to understand that the main purpose of studying is the organisation of the given Material in a way that makes sense to my brain. It took me a long time to get this. In some way we have to play Compiler to a foreign language. First translate the material into syntax and semantics you understand and then check if there are any Problems during runtime.
I love that Justin's videos use the words "thinking" and "thought" so often. I've noticed that often people are looking for study strategies that will help them learn without having to think or make connections.
Step 1 unclear. I ate the book.
This is how I have been studying lately and it evolved naturally. I discovered this while studying (just consider it as a game and you will be able to discover the most effective and your best method)
Pretty notes are pretty notes until the low level learning come to the conversation 😢
I’ve learned that it’s best follow your brain’s curiosity and answer questions that you have and you’ll retain the information.
Even if it’s different from the class you will have a stronger understanding of the concept.
Curiosity is a good starting point
That’s the crux of Dr Justin’s teaching to learning
By doing high level learning experiment i jumped to 150 to 180 marks in about 20 days getting the highest marks in ANATOMY!! thankuhh doctor ❤❤
0:17 I love seeing aesthetic notes and I’ve been inspired by them but the ones that were the most inspiring were the ones where each color/symbol etc actually had a specific meaning/function.
PLEASE TITLE THE VIDEO, 'THE PROBLEM WITH PRETTY NOTES'
I was the type of student who would want neat and aesthetic notes in order to study well cause im sort of a perfectionist and a neat freak but overtime I realized just writing information without actually having the time to learn it feels overwhelming and all. I was actually afraid of the mind mapping trick cause maybe I would lose track of things but Im definitely trying this new method and see if I have improvements!
This is literally the video that all the haters were asking for.. don’t see them saying thank you.. lol. Appreciate you bro, always !
I've wasted so much time in the past trying to colour-code and make my notes neat when I almost never go back and actually read them. It's the process of making them that is useful for me. I love flow charts and diagrams for this reason and then become an active exercise. I do however, still like using colours as a visual aid
i think when you correct your notes many times, and think them through, you appreciate them far more! much more than having linear notes you hardly know :-)
I was trying to study antibiotics too. Personally ppl put so much emphasis on memorization that i was unsure if we could use the approach you usually mention.
Im glad that doubt was cleared up a bit
Thank you so much, amazing video. Need a part 2 and a step by step guide 💯
Please, a video about how to do procedural learning. Or how to deal with numbers and equations in mindmaps and how to do mindmaps for problem specific subjects like physics or math
Physics is just concepts with numbers. For example if an object is static you have to know whatever force is being applied to an object and equal and opposite force is taken place. If you get a number higher or lower then it has to be wrong. Understanding the concept of the subject is much more valuable. Try doing word problems without numbers. I believe numbers distract people because they use them to just plug and chug and hope to get the right answer. Understanding why acceleration has specific units is important. Use the mind map for the concepts and then practice problems after.
Thank you so much I was struggling with this thing for a while now, I get afraid that if I don't write everything I'll end up forgetting it and missing it on exams. so I end up writing my notes for several hours and not actually studying the content I'm writing. This video came for me at the right time😇
The best way to take notes for me is mind mapping, Cornell method , or annotating on professors slides. I did this and was able to focus on the info and organize it
thank you, Dr. Justin, I just want you to know you are making a big difference in my education, thank you from my heart.
Thank you so much for making this. I have watched so many videos, and this video, with you actually showing how you do it, gives me so much clarity on how to actaully do it. Thank you!
Thanks for the great video Justin! I thought that the live demonstration was really helpful and it would be great if you could do a few more of those! Thank you!!
Sounds good, thanks for the feedback!
This was very insightful, thanks.
This practical videos is really helpful especially in explaining nuance problems in making mindmaps that I fail to identify like how to tackle multiple chunks and relate it. Thank you so much Justin, really love this format!
You're very welcome!
Keep making such video where you are practically showing example along with the explanation
Exactly
Exactly
I doubt it is a good example, because I don't believe he doesn't know the basics of antibiotics since the first year of the med school. I mean, the example works, but feels like cheating.
@@inevespace it can still be used for any new topic, extensive prior knowledge or not. Hes demonstrated it already on accounting and psychology. Plus he also demonstrated on the ottoman empire
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I will try to do more of that in future videos : )
This is an amazing video, I have struggled so much with my methods of studying but this actually gave me everything I needed to know about it !
Thank you for that vid. Had this experience with pretty notes. I tried to make a clear clean mindmap on paper and then remember it in my mind, instead of using mindmaping on paper as a tool to develope a mindmap in mind.
Learnd so much from that vid. Thank you very much
Actually in starting of my 11th grade i used to perform a similar technique of rough mindmapping but seeing others around me makes me feel its inefficient & not useful so i dropped that idea , but after your video i'm gonna continue that ... Thanks 😊
❤I hope DR. Justin Sung could be happy every day. Every time I feel tired, I will listen to Justin Sung’s videos. These videos are bringing me back energy.
This channel is ridiculously underrated. I swear to god this lad had an exceptional impact on my grades in no time.
My method is i take messy notes during class, then rewrite them neatly later so that i can study them easily for exams and tests.
Hey Justin, I am in your course and I have to say thank you so much! I’m currently in ascent 1 and I am nearly at the point of studying entire areas of study (which is insane), I can’t believe the efficiency gains. I am really excited for everything else in the course and can’t wait for more efficiency gains!
Awesome to hear!
Justin you are a best teacher.
Where were you, back when I was a Medical Student 😂 !!! LOVE THIS! Subscribed! Fan!
I didn't even know that this was a really a method all along but I've been studying this way and believe me it's a superb way to study as well as to remember a particular concept. Doodles, diagrams and Flowcharts really helps to understand a difficult topics. It really saves your valuable time and grasp more information in less time. Loved this video. ❤
Hey Justin
I have been watching your videos and i have notice that the best approach to math according to Bloom's taxonomy would be to create our own questions and solving it which would enable us to connect it to our prior knowledge and make it more relevant.
Since, creating our hypothesis enable us to evaluate information automatically at higher order .👍👍
Hi justin, before starting my new semester fortunately I saw your videos and now I am using your techniques …. That’s amazing i really leveled up 🎉❤
Happy to hear this!
Iam watching ur videos from so 3:44 long time but ur videos about learning is very efficient can make difference in ones learning ability maximum amount of people learn just through low level of learning understanding and remembering but after some time they forget and struggle to relearn and rereading I'm also one of this people just learning through low order learning but when I'm starting implementing high order learning it's makes drastic improvement in my learning
Thank you dr justin for helping lot of students
I'm really enjoying this content! Your videos are becoming increasingly engaging and easier to follow
Glad to hear it!
Thank you so much for this video! Love that you not only talked about the video's purpose but also gave a guided walkthrough, step by step on what you were doing and why.!
I also remember from a previous Mind-map video that your first mind-map should be a rough draft. Makes sense since in this video people are too attached to pretty notes. Do your mindmap as a 'rough draft' and since your brain is making connections (which your mindmap should be a reflection of whats going on in your mind) and then the 2nd draft would be the prettier, organized note sheet.
Love it!
Glad you got some value from it : )
I usually pick a marker and colored pen with the same colour, and that's as aesthetic as it gets lol just the combo and good paper is enough to please the eye but is not distracting either.
Ahora estoy intentando leer, poner las palabras clave y empezar a relacionarlas. Despues empiezo a organizarlas mejor para ver que no he entendido. Buen Video
I was a bit afraid that I was probably too fussy about my mindmaps that I continuously make it neat for clarity's sake but I realized that my mindmaps also do start very messy 😂.
I strongly agree on the cleaning and reorganizing part of mindmapping helped improve memory of the content. I remember that during exams I would visualize not only the final placement of key terms and icons on my mindmap but how I deliberately chose to organize and represent these things through trial and error.
Thank you so much.
Very helpful remider, that the process of learning is a messy and fun one.
thank you.
Hi Justin, just wanted to thank you so much for this video as well as the rest! It really gave me a new outlook on how to make notes that may take the same amount of time but get more out of it!
I would like to ask if you can maybe in the future make more videos where you showcase your thought process and mindmapping, helps alot!😅
I think this used to be my hang up with mind maps. My first exposure was with a book full of beautiful, colorful ones
already done in the icanstudy channel for psychology
Thank you
Well, my notes are cognitively great as well as look visually stunning. Even though I know that I could probably do more in less time I’m stubborn to do it my way.
I think thoroughly about how I organise my notes and in the time that I colour things I think about and recapitalise my notes again. For me that’s what works best.
Then again, I don’t mind to take twice as long as others.
I’m in medschool in Germany and I’m one of the best, if not the best student.
All I want to say is that different things work for different people, but if you want to learn the most efficient way the described one is the way to go. My way is just the most effective for me :)
Thankyou
Amazing!!! Thank you
He is criticisised because he really want to change the trend
Well thankuh so much ❤
I never wrote pretty notes and I got excellent grades Alhamdullilah
Hey Dr. Justin Sung, your videos are so life changing. I don't know what I would have done if I didn't discover your channel. It's a shame I can't enroll in your course, but I'll try and get the best value out of your CZcams channel. I do have one question though. For some reason, whenever I take your learner type test, I don't get a pdf report in my email. Is there something I can do about it?
This is great for when you’re doing homework/studying but what type of notes are proper for class? How can I organize my learning and thoughts from information gained from the teacher
Wow this was so helpful!!
I've always done this and it feels good to finally be validated haha :DD
Hi Justin! Helpful video! What app did u use to write?
I used to take a lot of notes in uni when I listened lectors. The thing is, there weren't recordings or books or preprinted notes, which is why I wrote everything down. And when I came home, I used to color my notes and draw maps of them to better understand ideas, priorities, connections e.t.c. The result looked pretty for me, but idk. I wouldn't bother with it if it didn't help me to remember everything
please add subtitle (not auto-generated) for every video, its very helping 🙏
I quit my degree after six years of study. I know much more about studying and just applied for a new degree.
I wish to apply all this knowledge.
Wish me luck!
What you studied for 6 years? And what you studying now?
@@UberBossPure BS Mechanical Engineering, now BS Applied Linguistics
Best of luck : )
@@JustinSung Thanks a lot
amazing video, thank you very much
You are welcome!
Great video. These YT videos really add to the course material. Maybe I missed it, but I don't recall the course videos saying make messy mindmaps and then clean them up. I have picked a few good tips from these YT videos that help me understand the course material better.
Exactly
Depends on your stage.
pls make a video specially targeting numbers or math subjects
I am a very average student who somehow passed school. I've never actually taken any effort to study everyday. I took an effort to study only when we had board exams. I learnt how to study from study with me vlogs on CZcams and at that time pretty notes were all the rage. I still use pretty notes, but I am never able to retain whatever I learn that way. Now I know why. I've been struggling with this for so long!!
This is your best video so far
: )
Does someone know which app he is using? Thanks. I am defenitly gonna try this method
This is pretty good but once you apply it to humanitarian majors it becomes hard. Can you make a video about how to employ such methods in studying law?
What tablet + infinite canvas program do you recommend for this type of studying?
What tools does Justin use?
Thanks in advance!
Good stuff as usual!
Glad you enjoyed!
In Chemistry there are a lot of long mathematical equation kindly give some suggestions about what should be done about long chemical reaction mechanisms and long mathematical equations.
Tutto ciò è triste e affascinante allo stesso tempo.. ci penso spesso a queste cose, è bello fantasticare, ma non serve a nulla.. come hai detto in un altro video dobbiamo crearci le opportunità lavorando su noi stessi e aumentando la probabilità di successo e di avere a favore eventi dovuti al caso grazie alla preparazione
He really went all out with the 5-minute Linear writing.
Please can someone explain more how do i "group" the information?
What app is he using it looks so good
I am a first-year Bolivian medical student studying at a private university, I dream of going to do my specialty in another country but I have had problems when taking notes since many of the methods I see on CZcams are oriented to use from an iPad, (which I don't have) I only have a laptop and my notebooks, so I would like you to recommend a way to study efficiently with only this equipment
What’s the computer app you’re using to take notes?
Came at the right time..
hmm just throwing it out,
i agree on making things too complicated for learning, especially when trying to beautify it,
perhaps, maybe the use case, for such would be the [ 5min recollection and do other things ] moment, for your brain to subconsciously reconsolidate for later retrieval.
this creates a [ needed gap ] , [ allows your other muscles or things to move] and [distracts ] away. It works in tangem with the curve and creates for web ?
Consume information actively by reading it thoroughly.
Think critically about the information to organize and retain it effectively.
Write notes to facilitate thinking and prevent cognitive overload.
Avoid skipping the step of processing information while taking notes.
Spend time cleaning up and organizing your notes for better understanding.
Engage in trial and error to build a conceptual web of knowledge.
Start with messy notes and progressively clean them up for deeper learning.
Likes needed
what system are you using for the mindmap?
What is the app you used to take notes in this video?
Hi @JustinSung. So I'm studying for a nation-wide entrance exam, and I am a Geography student. I'd like to do the same for my subject. I have some idea on my concepts but not much in the general topics and thus need to go through every book of basics in Geography, how do I start my studying?
1. Consuming information
2. Track your thoughts on a mind map (organize) and think about the pieces of information you've learned to improve your memory (relationships/understanding).
3. Improve notes (redo your mind map but this time in a more organized way for relationships)
Engage your brain, use your brain when learning (don't be distracted or just writing notes for the sake for writing notes (you have to think about it))
Summary: Start messy and think about the pieces of information you've consumed, then clean it up. (It helps with memory & understanding)
Great video, thanks justin
Thanks for watching!
Love your Videos!!! One question, can the mind map get to big even though you broke it down to the essentials and if so does it make sense to break it in two mind maps.
Yes bigger topics can be split into multiple mindmaps!
Your techniques are awesome
I would like to know about note taking on paper/book
Since i don't have ipad
Literally the same process but on a paper.
You can stick a few pieces of A4 paper together to create a large canvas to work with, which can artificially create that "infinite canvas" effect.
This will ensure that your learning is not limited due to page size.
This is interesting!
What application are you using on your iPad? I’ve been looking for something like this. I also need to learn, want to learn how to connect my iPad to video capturing. Any helpful suggestions, please?
Justin, can you maybe make a super short tutorial for how you use this app you use? I forgot it's name, but I downloaded it and I was lost on how to use it like you use it and stuck to notability/goodnotes and procreate (experimented around) and it was so hard, because those are not endless canvases. I would appreciate it so much. And thank you for another gem yet again to help us study more effectively...🙏
The App Name Is "Concepts" , Search Tutorials On CZcams There Are Many
Do you know that concepts have an entire CZcams channel with lots of free tutorials?
You can check that out here: youtube.com/@ConceptsApp?si=PQIL6KWopGnJ34yc
@@JustinSung oh thank you! definelty will!
What app were you using to make this video on your notepad?
Justin, you're literally a life changer.
I just have one question. I see how this works when studying concepts, but how can this be applied to history related subjects????
Just my personal thing, but I remembered history a lot better when I understood the context of things. Getting background and understanding makes things fit together like puzzle pieces. If I tried to just learn "The Cold War started in 1947" that would fall out of my head so fast. But if I learn that the Cold War began in the fallout of WWII where the US and Europe wanted to contain the Soviet Union and the spread of communism, then I know it's going to be around the mid 40's.
And every progressive step of that conflict makes sense because history all comes down to cause and effect. For Example: North America and Western made NATO to bind the participating countries into an alliance, largely as defense against the Soviet Union's spread of Communism. SU was like, yeah I don't know about *that* and made their own pact (Warsaw Pact) with communist nations in return. Cause: Nato -- Effect: Warsaw Pact... Then that had the effect of solidifying the divide between the eastern western "blocs" of Europe which resulted in things like the Berlin wall.
Wanna remember when the Berlin wall fell? Well cause and effect works. BUT you can also remember what was happening at the time. Just look at some pictures of people tearing down the wall and see the totally fierce late 80s/early 90s clothing and you'll definitely remember when it happened. Cheeky example, but it works.
@@itsbecca makes sense, thanks mate
what app are you using could you name it?
hi can you do a video of studying for ENGINEERING students I think a lot of what you say only applies to medicine students that require memorization but in engineering we need to solve problems
How would you approach learning the individual names of the antibiotics after creating the mindmap? A lot of my medical school exams expect us to have that level of understanding but also ask us first-order questions where we need to memorize little details like the names of all the third-gen cephalosporins.
Long time paramedic on this one - often drug name endings help a LOT. Beta blockers are usually lols, etc. I'll admit I don't have as good a grasp on my antibiotics, but there may be similar patterns in generic names.
This is also why PDRs and UpToDate exist - which doesn't help you with exams, of course, but does help with knowing that even "great doctors" need references.
Sorry I can't be more helpful - good luck!